{"product_id":"survivors-gratitude-the-gifts-of-cancer-clarity-and-connection","title":"Survivor's Gratitude: The Gifts of Cancer, Clarity, and Connection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is about cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2016, Andy Nelson was diagnosed with stage IV cancer and given odds that made the future look frighteningly short.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat followed was not a straight path toward triumph. It was surgeries and chemotherapy. Recurrences and reprieves. Fear and determination. Anger and gratitude. Family, faith, music, friendship, laughter—and the persistent discovery that some of life's greatest gifts can exist right alongside its hardest moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurvivor's Gratitude: The Gifts of Cancer, Clarity, and Connection\u003c\/i\u003e is Andy's honest, funny, vulnerable account of what happened when the life he had planned became the life he could never have planned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut this isn't a prescription for how to \"beat\" cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's an invitation to all of us:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePay attention to the life you have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHold close the people who matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListen for what is yours to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd don't wait for a diagnosis to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurvivor's Gratitude is for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndy's fellow cancer survivors. As soon as someone is diagnosed, they're a survivor. From that point forward, a lasting solidarity takes hold and endures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedical providers and caregivers, for their exquisite and tender help. May they feel humanity and gratitude back from survivors, and perhaps find words in this book to give to the next person diagnosed, or the loved one in their care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone who's ever experienced an unplanned unfolding in their life. May they keep surviving what life throws at them, become more alive and grateful to the life they have now, and help one another do the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Survivor's Gratitude","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":67603796820285,"sku":"9798997618308","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798997618308ita.jpg?v=1790715824","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/survivors-gratitude-the-gifts-of-cancer-clarity-and-connection","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}